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UNICEF MOZAMBIQUE SITUATION REPORT – February 2017
MOZAMBIQUE Humanitarian
Situation Report
Highlights
• 2.1 million people are facing food and nutrition insecurity in Mozambique
as the effects of El Niño continue to impact the country.
• 190,888 children screened for acute malnutrition and 12,161 severely acute
malnourished (SAM) treated by UNICEF and Ministry of Health trained
mobile brigades.
• Cyclone DINEO affected over 550,000 people and killed 7. Over 1,600
classrooms were partially or totally destroyed, affecting 160,000 learners.
• A Flash Appeal was issued on 28 February for US$10.2 million, which
included US$2.5 million for Education for which UNICEF is the lead. The
response is mostly focused on supporting temporary learning spaces and
emergency repairs in classrooms to enable 100,000 children to return to
school.
• UNICEF is supporting the Government’s cholera response. As of March 7
2017, 698 cases were confirmed along with two deaths.
• UNICEF supported a polio vaccination campaign in 14 districts, mostly in
Zambezia province.
795,000
Children affected by drought
160,000
Students affected by cyclone DINEO
2,100,000
People food insecure (IPC Phase 3)
(SETSAN December 2016)
145,040
People targeted by UNICEF
WASH
189,000
Children targeted by UNICEF
Nutrition and Health interventions
55,000
Children targeted by Education and
Protection interventions
UNICEF Appeal 2017
US$ 7.93 million
47% under funded
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A roof of a primary school blown out by cyclone DINEO in Morrunbene district one of the
hardest hit districts in Inhambane province.
UNICEF’s Response with partners
UNICEF
Target
UNICEF
Results
WASH
People provided with access to safe water (7.5-15L per
person per day) 145,040 12,500
People benefiting from sanitation, hygiene promotion
activities, including point-of-use water treatment safe
practices
145,040 3,254
Health
Children in humanitarian situations affected by acute
diarrhea diseases, including cholera treated 5,000 3,000
Nutrition
Children under 5 with SAM admitted to nutrition
rehabilitation treatment programmes 34,000 12,161
Pregnant and lactating women reached with IYCF services 150,000 65,034
Education
Children aged 6-15 years old in humanitarian situations
accessing education 40,000 6,000
Children aged 3-5 years old in humanitarian situations
accessing play-based learning 10,000 0*
Protection
Children affected by humanitarian situations identified and
referred to appropriate assistance, including receiving PSS 5,000 0*
*Implementation of Education and Protection activities have not yet started. UNICEF has received funding
confirmation from the Japanese Government and is awaiting the receipt of funds.
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*Funds available includes funding received for the
current appeal year as well as the carry-forward from
the previous year.
UNICEF MOZAMBIQUE SITUATION REPORT – February 2017
Situation Overview & Humanitarian Needs
The number of people currently affected by food and nutrition insecurity in Mozambique as a result of the El Niño drought has risen
from 1.5 million in September 2016 to 2.1 million according to a report by the Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition
(SETSAN) released in January 2017. It is also expected that a significant number of people will require continued humanitarian
assistance after the harvest. On 15 February 2017, Tropical Cyclone Dineo made landfall in Mozambique, affecting 550,000 people,
mostly in the southern provinces of Gaza and Inhambane. Cyclone Dineo reached winds speeds up to 170km/h, resulting in over
US$15 million in relief and early recovery needs, with education and health among the most affected sectors. In addition, heavy rains
in the southern and central provinces of Inhambane and Sofala resulted in the localized floods and the displacement of 3,300 people
and isolation of an additional 3,662 with cut off access to basic services. On 28 February 2017, the Humanitarian Country Team issued
a Flash Appeal for the Dineo Cyclone Response for a total of US$10.2 million, which included US$2.5 million for Education for which
UNICEF is the lead.
There is an ongoing cholera outbreak in Maputo and Nampula provinces, and an outbreak of polio in Zambezia province. While there
was a growing expectation that the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) would reduce significantly following the military
truce reached between the government and the opposition military forces, the February displacement tracking matrix (DTM) exercise
in which UNICEF participated in Manica province highlights that the number of conflict driven IDPs remain almost stagnant, with
15,128 IDPs in November 2016 versus 15,121 in February 2017.
The National Institute for
Meteorology (INAM) has been
accurate in its forecasting for
the 2016-2017 rainy and
cyclone season, particularly
with the materialisation of
scenario II defined in the
National Contingency Plan.
Cyclone DINEO has further
compromised the food security
of the affected population,
particularly with initial
estimations indicating that
29,000 ha of planted crops have
been lost. This situation further
increments on the potential
need for humanitarian
assistance beyond March in
order to address the residual
humanitarian caseload.
Cholera
Following the onset of rain season, cholera outbreaks have been reported during this period. Until 7 March 2017, 698 cases and two
deaths of cholera were reported (CFR 0.3%) in three regions of the country. In the south: Maputo city (219 cases, 1 death), Maputo
province <Matola city (69 cases) and Marracuene (4 cases). In the north 406 cases in two sites in Nampula province (Monapo and
Namialo). In the center a new outbreak has been declared in Tete city, data will be shared in the next SitRep.
Humanitarian leadership and coordination
The National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) provides overall leadership and coordination of all humanitarian interventions
in the country. The Technical Council for Disaster Management (CTGC) and the Humanitarian Country Team working group (HCT-WG)
supports the INGC, co-chaired by CARE International and WFP. UNICEF chairs the inter-cluster coordination group (ICCG), a newly
established coordination mechanism within the HCT. The HCT-WG gives direct support to the implementation of all humanitarian
actions in the country allowing for coordinated preparedness, response and recovery interventions.
Humanitarian Strategy
UNICEF’s humanitarian strategy consists of interventions in WASH, Health, Nutrition, Education and Protection. Within the HCT and
through the Government, UNICEF continues to provide technical, coordination and monitoring support to the government and
humanitarian cluster coordination groups, focusing on the provinces most affected by drought, cyclone, flood and cholera. To further
strengthen the monitoring capacity, UNICEF has developed a terms of reference for third party monitoring (TPM) which are currently
being finalized. The purpose of TPM is to support programmes and to provide evidence-based information and data on programme
implementation, progress and results achieved against plans, bottlenecks or constraints, and adequately monitor the emergency
response.
Figure 2. Cyclone DINEO affected areas and population
Tete
Nassa
Gaza
Sofala
Zambezia
Manica
Nampula
Inhambane
Cabo Delgado
Maputo
Figure 1: SETSAN’s integrated food security phase classification (IPC) 2016. Figure 2: Estimated people and communities affected by cyclone DINEO.
UNICEF MOZAMBIQUE SITUATION REPORT – February 2017
Summary Analysis of Programme Response
The emergency situation in Mozambique has been characterized by a number of overlapping humanitarian situations arising from
drought, conflict, floods, cholera and Cyclone Dineo. UNICEF leads response interventions for WASH, Health, Education, Protection
with C4D integrated in all programmes. UNICEF’s response is underpinned by the imperative need and urgency to meet the core
commitments for children (CCCs) in humanitarian action. The country office is involved in responding to all humanitarian situations
in the country and has been involved as cluster leads and chairs of ICCG in the coordination of the response by participating in joint
humanitarian assessments and monitoring missions in the country, including assessments to cyclone Dineo, cholera outbreaks in
Maputo and IDP assessments in Manica.
Nutrition: The deterioration nutrition in children is expected to reach its peak at the end of the lean season in March. Although a good
harvest is anticipated, which will contribute to significant improvements of the nutrition and food security conditions, overall, the
nutrition situation is expected to remain poor until July 2017 as historically, the peak of acute malnutrition occurs at the end of the
lean season in March. It is also expected that Cyclone Dineo will have implications on agricultural harvesting as initial reports indicate
29,000 ha of planted crops have been lost and this may affect food and nutrition security. A new SETSAN food security and nutrition
assessment is planned for March and the assessment will serve as the basis for adjusting current drought interventions. The results
will be used to revise the strategic response plan (SRP) and the post drought position paper to further assist in determining the
potential residual humanitarian caseload beyond March 2017.
UNICEF’s Nutrition response has expanded to Zambezia province,
with additional mobile brigades targeting 8 districts. Through active
case finding and case management, as well as counselling on Infant
and Young Child Feeding (IYCF), UNICEF has helped to reached 65,034
caregivers in January. In addition to screening, treating and referring
(for complex cases) all acutely malnourished children, some of the
mobile brigades also conduct HIV screening and referrals. In 2017,
190,888 children under the age of five years were screened for malnutrition, of which 12,161 children with severe acute malnutrition
were admitted to nutrition treatment programmes as seen in figure 3.
Health: The main impact of the Cyclone Dineo so far on Health has been on health infrastructure and equipment in some affected
facilities. According to data published 70 health facilities where affected. UNICEF support include tents to setup temporary services
in 15 health facilities, and 10 kits of basic module of interagency health emergency kit. UNICEF is also discussing with partners to
further support the rehabilitation work in 4 health facilities and replacement of damaged cold chain equipment.
Cholera: UNICEF has conducted assessment missions in Maputo and Nampula where identified major gaps in community intervention
and supported the coordination work in affected settings. The support also includes WASH interventions through provision of CERTEZA,
strengthening of social mobilization through training of community health workers (CHW) and religious leaders and provision of
medicines and equipment. Particularly in Matola and Nampula, UNICEF has supported with tents and materials which were used for
establishment of a cholera treatment centre.
Polio: Following the notification of a Polio case in an eight year old that was never vaccinated from Derre District in Zambezia, UNICEF
supported the implementation of a door-to-door campaign, mainly in the areas of social mobilization, vaccine supply and technical
support for service delivery. Independent monitoring End process coverage evaluation indicated 94% coverage. Following a Risk
Assessment based on surveillance and routine and campaign coverage, the country has been approved to conduct a second round of
Polio campaign, tentatively scheduled for the last week April.
WASH: UNICEF WASH support to the El Niño drought response focuses mainly on upgrading water supply facilities in 68 drought
affected communities in Tete (11), Inhambane (7), Gaza (16), Manica (13) and Sofala (21) provinces. Construction work is expected to
start in the second quarter of 2017 and nearby schools will also benefit from the boreholes (so far 12 have been identified). UNICEF
has responded to cyclone Dineo by providing 30,000 bottles of Certeza-water household purification solution and 2,400 litres of fuel
to run back-up generators which pump the water from the existing water systems. An additional 3,254 bottles of certeza were
distributed in Maputo to support the cholera response.
Education: In Education, UNICEF supports the restoration of education services following Cyclone Dineo through the provision of
school tents and learning materials. UNICEF has responded with 17 school tents (benefiting 3,000 students), 13,999 learners kits, in
addition to 96 school-in-a-box kits, assisting 3,840 children. As cluster lead, UNICEF is also spear heading the work around providing
temporary learning spaces. Considering that the number and composition of tents available in stock are below the current needs,
the country office has engaged with UN habitat, Ministry of Education, World Vision, INGC and other partners to provide temporary
learning through building TARPAtents, a best practice used in Madagascar in 2008. One TARPAtent was built in Maxixe districts to
demonstrate the technique. UNICEF is releasing 241 tarpaulins to build additional 26 TARPAtents in the most affected districts and
schools. This approach will be complemented by a partnership agreement with World Vision for additional emergency repairs of
heavily damaged schools with resilient roofing.
190,888
12,161
Screened
SAM treated
Children < 5 years with SAM admitted to nutrition
rehabilitation treatment programmes
Figure 1: Children <5 with SAM admitted to nutritional treatment
UNICEF MOZAMBIQUE SITUATION REPORT – February 2017
Protection: UNICEF participated in the February displacement tracking matrix (DTM) exercise in Manica to assess the IDP situation in
the province but also to monitor the IDP response, coordinated by HCT. The preparations for a protection response to IDPs in Sofala,
which will include provision of family kits, is currently being finalized.
Communications for Development (C4D)
Communication for Development and media support has been provided particularly in the framework of the polio campaign in January,
the drought response in January and February, and in response to Cyclone Dineo. The polio campaign took place from February 8-12
in 14 districts located in Zambezia, Tete and Sofala provinces. UNICEF support was provided to create household demand for the polio
vaccine through a house-to-house vaccination campaign which targeted 500,000 children. Support included community and
traditional leaders’ mobilisation, use of community radios and debates in five local languages, and working with Institute of Social
Communication (ICS) Multimedia Mobile Units to sensitise the targeted communities. For the drought response, a total of 53,000
people were reached in selected districts of Gaza, Manica and Tete with key messages on breastfeeding, complementary feeding,
hygiene and sanitation through video sessions and debates organized by the ICS.
Funding
UNICEF Mozambique Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) Requirements for 2017
Appeal Sector Requirements Funds Received* Funding gap
$ %
WASH $2,405,705 $712,849 $1,692,856 70%
Nutrition $4,624,921 2,544,138 $2,080,783 45%
Health $150,000 $227,666 -$77,666 152%
Education $400,000 $495,571 -$95,571 124%
Protection $350,000 $204,682 $145,318 42%
Total $7,930,626 $4,184,546 $3,746,080 47%
*Funds received include carry-forward funds ($3,082,634) from the previous year.
UNICEF would like to express gratitude for the valuable contributions of DFID, Irish Aid, OFDA, Japanese Government and the US Fund
for UNICEF that are supporting the on-going drought and cyclone DINEO response.
Next SitRep: 30 April 2017
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Who to
contact for
further
information:
Marcoluigi Corsi
Representative,
Mozambique
Tel: +258 21 48 11 11
Mobile: +258 82 305 1900
Email: [email protected]
Michel Le Pechoux
Deputy Representative,
Mozambique
Tel: +258 21 48 11 04
Mobile : +258 82 314 8100
Email: [email protected]
Tito Bonde
Emergency/DRR Specialist,
Mozambique
Tel: +258 21 481 150
Mobile: +258 82 333 9250
Email: [email protected]
UNICEF MOZAMBIQUE SITUATION REPORT – February 2017
Annex 1
SUMMARY OF 2017 PROGRAMME RESULTS
Annex 2
SUMMARY OF 2016 PROGRAMME RESULTS
Sector Response UNICEF and IPs
2016 Target Total Results 2016 Target Total Results
Nutrition
Children < 5 years with SAM admitted to nutrition
rehabilitation treatment programmes 27,500 8,102 27,500 8,102
Pregnant and lactating women reached with IYCF
services* 150,000 0 150,000 0
WASH
People provided with access to safe water (7.5-15L per
person per day) 300,000 221,275 120,000 23,960
People benefitting from hygiene promotion activities
including point-of-use water treatment safe practices 300,000 114,399 120,000 23,960
*UNICEF has not yet received information on IYCF coverage estimates.
Sector Response UNICEF and IPS
WASH 2017 Target Total Results 2017 Target Total Results
People provided with access to safe water (7.5-15L per
person per day) 300,000 12,500 145,040 12,500
People benefiting from sanitation, hygiene promotion
activities, including point-of-use water treatment safe
practices
300,000 3,254 145,040 3,254
Health
Children in humanitarian situations affected by acute
diarrhoea diseases, including cholera treated 5,000 3,000 5,000 3,000
Nutrition
Children under 5 with SAM admitted to nutrition
rehabilitation treatment programmes 34,000 12,161 34,000 12,161
Pregnant and lactating women reached with IYCF
services 150,000 70,614 150,000 65,034
Education
Children aged 6-15 years old in humanitarian situations
accessing education 40,000 6,000 40,000 13,999
Children aged 3-5 years old in humanitarian situations
accessing play-based learning* 10,000 0 10,000 0
Protection
Children affected by humanitarian situations identified
and referred to appropriate assistance, including
receiving PSS
5,000 0 5,000 0
*Activity is yet to start due to lack of funding however, UNICEF has recently received funding confirmation from the Government of Japan and awaits the receipt of funds.